excuse me, i have to go wee

Wii will break down that wall that separates video game players from everybody else.

And still more clarification:

Wii has a distinctive "ii" spelling that symbolizes both the unique controllers and the image of people gathering to play. ... And together Wii will change everything.

After all the good hype this game is getting, after all the arugments I've had with Xbox fanboys and PS lovers - arguments I've won, by the way - about how this console is going to be the greatest thing to happen to gaming, after all the great news about every aspect of the revolution - this is what we end up with. Was the marketing department smoking crack? Asleep? Filled with 13 yr old kids who had to pee? Nintendo has taken a huge step backward with this. Huge. This is the most asinine naming of an anticipated thing since The Phantom Menace.

Yea, the console will still be awesome. But come on, I just can't imagine a conversation in which I tell someone I'm going to hang out at home and play with my Nintendo wii.

Guaranteed the Xbox legion are lining up the piss/penis jokes already.

The idea behind the name--which is pronounced "we"--is that it will invoke the feeling of cooperative play that comes when people play games together. Further, Nintendo said, the written name is meant to visually conjure up the image of two people standing together.
"The goal is we are a highly innovative company and we want the name to speak to that innovation and uniqueness," said Perrin Kaplan, Nintendo's vice president of marketing and corporate affairs. "If you were to look at (the name of the controller) visually, the point isn't just how you pronounce it, but it symbolizes the controllers, which are one of the most innovative and unique parts of the system.

the written name is meant to visually conjure up the image of two people standing together.

Yea, standing in line at a glory hole on the New Jersey Turnpike, maybe.

Oh yea, I'm gonna get all Beavis on this wee-wee thing.

And thus far, my favorite headlines submitted to fark:

Nintendo Wii? Not to be outdone, Sony announces the GayStation 3

NintendorevealsthenameoftheirnextgenerationconsoleWiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Nintendo, having almost won the upcoming game console primaries, pulls a Howard Dean at the last minute: Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

"I played with my Wii all night long and boy is my arm tired" - Nintendo's new console named

They said it couldn't be done. Nintendo researchers invent console system name gayer than "DreamCast"